[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 96 (Thursday, June 19, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Page S3884]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 GUN LAKE TRUST LAND REAFFIRMATION ACT

  Mr. REID. I ask unanimous consent the Senate proceed to Calendar No. 
432, S. 1603.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 1603) to reaffirm that certain land has been 
     taken into trust for the benefit of the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-
     Wish Band of Pottawatami Indians, and for other purposes.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. REID. I further ask unanimous consent that the bill be read the 
third time and passed, and the motion to reconsider be considered made 
and laid upon the table, with no intervening action or debate.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The bill (S. 1603) was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, 
was read the third time, and passed, as follows:

                                S. 1603

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

       This Act may be cited as the ``Gun Lake Trust Land 
     Reaffirmation Act''.

     SEC. 2. REAFFIRMATION OF INDIAN TRUST LAND.

       (a) In General.--The land taken into trust by the United 
     States for the benefit of the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band 
     of Pottawatomi Indians and described in the final Notice of 
     Determination of the Department of the Interior (70 Fed. Reg. 
     25596 (May 13, 2005)) is reaffirmed as trust land, and the 
     actions of the Secretary of the Interior in taking that land 
     into trust are ratified and confirmed.
       (b) No Claims.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
     an action (including an action pending in a Federal court as 
     of the date of enactment of this Act) relating to the land 
     described in subsection (a) shall not be filed or maintained 
     in a Federal court and shall be promptly dismissed.
       (c) Retention of Future Rights.--Nothing in this Act alters 
     or diminishes the right of the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band 
     of Pottawatomi Indians from seeking to have any additional 
     land taken into trust by the United States for the benefit of 
     the Band.

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